Sheri Bailey — Awards

PREMIERES, AWARDS, FELLOWSHIPS

Virginia Commission for the Arts Playwrighting Fellowship
Board Member of the Year, Community Mediation Center and the United Way
City of VA Beach Arts & Humanities Commission Juneteenth Players Grant
Louisiana Cultural Arts Grant, Summers in Suffolk
Virginia Commission for the Arts & Touring Grants (3 years)
NAACP Theatre Award Nomination for “Best Playwright” (Passing)
Suffolk Arts League & Fine Arts Committee Grants, Summers in Suffolk: 1870-1992
Huntington Library to House Sheri Bailey’s Papers and Works
National Endowment For The Arts, “Individual Artist” Theatre Fellowship
NAACP Theatre Nomination for “Best Playwright” (Walking with a Panther)
Willard A. Rodgers Minority Writers “Best Screenplay”, Dannie ‘n Laurence
American Film Institute Summer Writers Workshop, All Kinds of Blue
Mark Taper Forum’s New Play Workshop, A Summer Memory & A Summer Romance
NAACP Theatre Award Nomination for “Best Playwright” (Southern Girls)
Dorland Mountain Artist Retreat Residency

COMMISSIONS/PRODUCTIONS

University of Louisiana–Shreveport, Southern Girls
University of Louisiana–Shreveport, Dannie ‘n Laurence
University of Louisiana-Shreveport, World Premiere of Tidewater
Riddick’s Folly Foundation of Suffolk, VA commissioned Christmas Stories
University of Louisiana–Shreveport, Walking with a Panther
University of North Carolina–Wilmington, Southern Girls
Old Dominion University - A Great & Dismal Swamp
Towne Street Theatre, World Premiere of Passing
Towne Street Theatre, Los Angeles Cultural Affairs Grant, Summers in Suffolk
Dark Horse Productions (6 month run), Mayhem at the Red River Bar